Braintree police arrest 3 for alleged heroin deal

Wednesday

Jun 4, 2014 at 5:03 PM

On Tuesday police drug officers followed three men from Stoughton and Boston as they drove to the McDonald's at Five Corners for an alleged deal. All three were arraigned Wednesday and will be back in court on Sept. 11.

Lane Lambert The Patriot Ledger @llambert_ledger

BRAINTREE – The town’s police narcotics unit has been watching the streets off Interstate 93 and Route 37 for months, from reports of suspected drug activity in the area – and it paid off Tuesday, with the arrest of three men from Stoughton and Boston for alleged heroin dealing.

George Tony Daher, 35, of Stoughton, Juan Francisco Pena, 21, of Boston, and Divanny Milciades Cabral, 21, of Hyde Park, were all arrested a mile away on Pearl Street – Daher at a traffic light, Pena and Cabral at their car at the McDonald’s where the deal was allegedly made.

Cabral and Pena were charged with heroin dealing and conspiracy to violate state drug laws. Daher was charged with heroin possession and conspiracy to violate the drug laws. All three were arraigned in Quincy District Court Wednesday. They pleaded innocent and were released on personal recognizance.

They’ll be back in court for a pretrial session on Sept. 11.

According to the police report that the Patriot Ledger obtained from the court clerk’s office, police found $411 in cash in Pena’s pockets and eight baggies of what appeared to be brown heroin in the Honda Civic in which he and Cabral were stopped.

The police report says the arrests began at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, when officers spotted a black Mercedes-Benz pulled into the far corner of the Mobile gas station on Route 37, opposite South Shore Plaza.

The driver, who the report says was talking on his cell phone and “looking around the parking lot in a nervous fashion,” was later identified as Daher. A half hour later, a Honda Civic with two men pulled into the parking lot. “The Honda never parked nor stopped,” the report said, but pulled back onto Granite Street (Route 37) and headed south, with the Mercedes following.

When both cars reached the McDonald’s, all three men got out, but the two from the Honda – later identified as Cabral and Pena – never looked at or spoke to Daher. All three went into the men’s restroom inside the McDonald’s, and Daher left 10 seconds later, “almost running on his way out,” according to the police report.

Two officers stopped Daher’s Mercedes in front of the Shaw’s supermarket on Pearl Street, less than a quarter mile from the McDonald’s. They found one baggie of what appeared to be brown heroin inside. Meanwhile, other officers blocked the parked Honda with a cruiser, searched it and charged Cabral and Pena.